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however before sending any Access mdb you should always do a compact and repair (in fact you probably ought to do a C&R at least weekly in development, and perhaps at least monthly in production)

if you email client is whinging compress the MDB using something like winzip,. failing that have a word* with your network trolls and see what they advise.

*when dealing with network trolls I find a word or two reinforced with some suitable hand gestures often helps, assuming the hand gestures are your hands warmly grasping the trolls neck and gently massaging their windpipe with your thumbs. failing that a baseball bat in the hand is better than telephone call

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change the extension .mdb or .mde to .xxx this will allow it to bypass checking. the person on the other end has to rename the .xxx to .mde or .mdb for access to open it. this goes for any type of file the e-mail system will not let you send because they have blocked the extension. just change the extension to .xxx